narddawg314
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I just recently started lagering and was taking a peek at the fermenter this morning when all of the sudden it looked like there was dripping water into the carboy. I thought maybe it was condensation, but then realized the beer was 42* F and so is the chamber..no way it could be a condensation drip unless something was wrong...I took a closer look and noticed that my blowoff tube had water siphoned up in it from the bottle the end was placed in!!!!!!!
My typical setup is to fill a 1 liter glass bottle with about 3" of sanitized water and place the blow off tube into that so no air is sucked into the fermenter. I have never had a problem with that until now. The sanitized water I used this time was a 1Tbl spoon of bleach for 1 gallon of water....I was out of Star San unfortunately. I smelled the water in the blowoff bottle didn't smell bleach, so maybe it's all evaporated.
My typical setup is to fill a 1 liter glass bottle with about 3" of sanitized water and place the blow off tube into that so no air is sucked into the fermenter. I have never had a problem with that until now. The sanitized water I used this time was a 1Tbl spoon of bleach for 1 gallon of water....I was out of Star San unfortunately. I smelled the water in the blowoff bottle didn't smell bleach, so maybe it's all evaporated.
- Is this batch ruined? I planned on keeping it in the fridge until April 3rd and would hate to wait that long and find out it's ruined...
- Just before going into the chamber for lagering, I swapped the bung for a thermowell and then I had this happen...could swapping the bung have somehow created a vacuum that siphoned the water in? The carboy is higher than the blowoff bottle too, so this is really confusing.